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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 190, 期 11, 页码 3869-3876出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00092-08
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM036877, R01 GM036877] Funding Source: Medline
NarX-NarL and NarQ-NarP are paralogotis two-component regulatory systems that control Escherichia coli gene expression in response to the respiratory oxidants nitrate and nitrite. Nitrate stimulates the autophosphorylation rates of the NarX and NarQ sensors, which then phosphorylate the response regulators NarL and NarP to activate and repress target operon transcription. Here, we investigated both the autophosphorylation and dephosphorylation of soluble sensors in which the maltose binding protein (MBP) has replaced the amino-terminal transmembrane sensory domain. The apparent affinities (K-m) for ADP were similar for both proteins, about 2 mu M, whereas the affinity of MBP-NarQ for ATP was lower, about 23 mu M. At a saturating concentration of ATP, the rate constant of MBP-NarX autophosphorylation (about 0.5 x 10(-4) s(-1)) was lower than that observed for MBP-NarQ (about 2.2 x 10(-4) s(-1)). At a saturating concentration of ADP, the rate constant of dephosphorylation was higher than that of autophosphorylation, about 0.03 s(-1) for MBP-NarX and about 0.01 s(-1) for MBP-NarQ. For other studied sensors, the published affinities for ADP range from about 16 mu M (KinA) to about 40 mu M (NtrB). This suggests that only a small proportion of NarX and NarQ remain phosphorylated in the absence of nitrate, resulting in efficient response regulator dephosphorylation by the remaining unphosphorylated sensors.
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